- attenuated: to make thin or slender
- bewail: to express deep sorrow for usually by wailing and lamentation
- bifurcated:to cause to divide into two branches or parts
- burghers: an inhabitant of a borough or a town
- catafalque: an ornamental structure sometimes used in funerals for the lying in state of the body
- chasseur: hunter
- conjecture:interpretation of omens
- coulisses: the side scene of a stage; a piece of timber having a groove in which something glides
- declivity: downward inclination
- dolmen: a prehistoric monument of two or more upright stones supporting a horizontal stone slab found especially in Britain and France and thought to be a tomb
- ecocide: the destruction of large areas of the natural environment especially as a result of deliberate human action
- insensate: lacking sense or understanding (foolish)
- intransigent: characterized by refusal to compromise or to abandon an extreme position or attitude
- laterite: a residual product of rock decay that is red in color and has a high content in the oxides of iron and hydroxide of aluminum
- pantheistic: a doctrine that equates God with the forces and laws of the universe; the worship of all gods of different creeds, cults, or peoples indifferently; toleration of worship of all gods (as at certain periods of the Roman empire)
- pietism: emphasis on devotional experience and practice
- polemic: an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another
- Pomerania: region N Europe on Baltic Sea; formerly in Germany, now mostly in Poland
- preceptor: teacher, tutor
- semaphore: a system of visual signaling by two flags held one in each hand
- solecism: an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence
- Solipsism:a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing
- subsumed: to include or place within something larger or more *comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element
- suzerainty: dominion of a suzerain (a superior feudal lord to whom fealty is due)
- swidden: a temporary agricultural plot produced by cutting back and burning off vegetative cover
- thalers: any of numerous silver coins issued by various German states from the 15th to the 18th centuries
- Zwinglian: of or relating to Ulrich Zwingli or his teachings and especially his doctrine that Christ's presence in the Eucharist is not corporeal but symbolic
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